Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers

LLM "tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity" when writing news briefs. [...]

US outlines its $5 billion Genesis Mission to boost science with AI

Several federal agencies are contributing toward the interdisciplinary research efforts. [...]

Hardcore iPhone 17 Pro teardown explains 'scratchgate' with microscopes and science

A couple of YouTube videos have confirmed that the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max can pick up scratches easily, in some areas. [...]

Thinking Machines' first official product is here: meet Tinker, an API for distributed LLM fine-tuning

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded earlier this year by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has launched its first product: Tinker, a Python-based API designed to make large language model (LLM) fin [...]

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics. [...]

The Webb telescope spots a supernova from 13 billion years ago

The James Webb Space Telescope and other international observatories have spotted a 13-billion-year-old supernova. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced the sighting of a gamma-ray bur [...]

One NASA science mission saved from Trump’s cuts, but others still in limbo

"Damage is being done already. Even if funding is reinstated, we have already lost people." [...]

15 plants that are stranger than any science fiction

From a tree that bleeds red sap to a flower with no roots or leaves, these 15 plants are more extreme than most science fiction could imagine [...]

Rice weevil on a grain of rice wins 2025 Nikon Small World contest

Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. [...]